Something even more historically unprecedented

Submitted by Alexander Gofen (United States), Mar 9, 2007 at 22:50

I highly appreciated your brief yet very deep sketch of the big picture, wishing to add few comments to your conclusion:

"Correctly anticipating that course is the more difficult for being historically unprecedented. No large territory has ever shifted from one civilization to another by virtue of a collapsed population, faith, and identity; nor has a people risen on so grand a scale to reclaim its patrimony. The novelty and magnitude of Europe's predicament make it difficult to understand, tempting to overlook, and nearly impossible to predict. Europe marches us all into terra incognita."

There is something bigger in all that which is historically unprecedented: never before the ruling and richest elites in entire Western world have voluntarily and readily conceded their power and wealth in pandemic insane obsessive concerns about the "poor" and low class. It is much more than lack of CIVILIZATIONAL CONFIDENCE (Jack Wheeler, To the Point News, 2006/12/29) or a "liberal fear of being envied" - both only symptoms of a bigger very puzzling historical trend.

This global liberal brain melting began a couple of centuries ago. In 1800 (and before) it was generally acknowledged that the highest class is objectively better and more capable than the lower, thus fully deserving their wealth, privileges, power (inherited or acquired), while the lower is low mostly because of their objectively limited knowledge, skills et cetera. (Some were unjustly disadvantaged indeed, but that did not change the general concept of objective inequality).

Since then unprecedented in the human history events began to happen (to name a few):

1) All European monarchies willingly reduced their power to zero, turning themselves into poppet figures.

2) American Congress granted voting rights to ALL citizens disregarding their property status. By granting voting to those who do not deserved it, the ruling class willingly placed our country under unescapable preassure of the poor who seek only more and more entitlements.

3) The same ruling elite willingly taxed themselves above 50% (in Eurabia above 90%), thus robbing themselves in favor of lower classes.

4) Eurabia and America in 1960s completely abandoned the unshakeable axiom that the aspiring immigrants must match racial, ethnic, cultural, lingual and religious identity of the hosts (plus other limitations).

This is a suicidal trend: more basic than simply a decadent soul searching, liberal complex of guilt, et cetera.

Is it all (as damned Marx/Lenin put it) a case when a (suicidal) idea possessed the masses becoming unstoppable force?

Why do I care: after all, I do not belong to the highest class. (I fled from the former USSR having a specific experience and sharp eye on what is happening; and I do realize, that there is no more place for me to flee farther). How come that the whole propaganda machine owned by the richest elite promotes ONLY the causes of lowest scum within and without, the causes of the enemies of America. Their pandering to the causes of all kinds of bums and disadvantaged is more grotesque than that in the former USSR! (There even the Party propaganda had never bend back before bums and scum the way American media does). How come that the elite of thousands of people worth of hundred of millions if not billions, seem to not see that they are digging their graves?!

Who, which great personality is capable of stopping and reversing the centuries long deadly trend? If no personality can reverse anything as huge as a global "brain cap" melting, which cataclysmic event (the act of God) is capable of doing that?

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